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Use your expertise to strengthen innovative businesses - and grow professionally

Join the Forward Collective program and support early-stage founders as they build and grow their businesses regarding financial health solutions. Ready to create meaningful impact while developing your own skills?
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Volunteer Mentoring Opportunity

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Applications open until April 15, 2026

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From all over the world

6 months

Certificate of participation available
Attend 1–2 sessions on leadership mentorship
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Why participate in this program to support entrepreneurs?

Support a project that inspires you

Explore entrepreneur profiles and choose the startup or project that resonates most with your interests and expertise. Your industry knowledge can be the catalyst that accelerates their growth to drive real impact.

Learn and grow alongside entrepreneurs

This is hands-on learning. You’ll follow a structured mentoring journey with clear milestones, practical tools, and simple step-by-step guidance.

Access top-tier business tools

You’ll use the same high-quality entrepreneurship framework and methodologies that founders follow—enhancing both your strategic mentoring abilities.

Strengthen your leadership skills

Attend 1–2 mentor sessions to support an early-stage social entrepreneur and develop your leadership skills. Mentoring strengthens active listening, problem-solving, teamwork, and communication - skills you can bring back to your own team.

A high-impact, structured mentoring experience

Flexible and global

Mentor through the Bridge for Billions digital platform. Designed for busy professionals, the program adapts to your schedule without compromising on impact.

Help entrepreneurs overcome real challenges

Entrepreneurship is often a lonely journey. Your support will help founders validate their ideas, refine their business models, and gain confidence moving forward.

Build meaningful connections

Join a vibrant community of inclusive innovators, colleagues, and fellow mentors. Expand your professional network while contributing to something bigger.

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Do you have questions about the program?

To learn more or resolve any doubts you may have, we organise online information sessions in English.
Click on your preferred date to see the session time in your local time zone and register to meet our team!
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The Program Mission

This entrepreneurship initiative empowers early-stage founders by providing guidance, tools, and opportunities to build and grow viable businesses in financial health solutions. Rooted in equity and access, the program connects corporate volunteers with entrepreneurs who benefit deeply from encouragement, expertise, and structured support to become the next generation of inclusive innovators in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Italy and France.

Through your participation, you help create more inclusive and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems.

I want to join as a mentor

Interested in Mentoring? You are the right fit if you...

  • Feel motivated to support entrepreneurs on their journey
  • Ideally possess at least 3–5 years of professional experience post-graduation, regardless of your role or specific area of expertise.
  • Mentors are encouraged to dedicate 4–6 hours per month to follow-up mentoring sessions to ensure the best experience. If co-mentoring, the commitment can be reduced to 2–3 hours per month.
  • Have access to a computer and stable internet.
  • Interested in supporting financial health solution businesses in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Italy or France.
  • You speak English.
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Curious about joining us? Our Info Sessions have the answers.

Register to learn more about this program, meet our staff and ask us questions.

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How to apply to the program?

Create your profile

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Start by clicking on the “Apply now!” button.

Fill in your personal information to set up an account on our platform.

Remember your email and password for future access.

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Complete all sections

Work at your own pace through all sections of the application.

Once completed, all the checkmarks at the top will turn blue, indicating that you’re ready to submit.

Note: An asterisk “*” next to the question indicates that the field is required.

Submit your application and await further news

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 We recommend that you review your application in detail one last time. If you’re good to go, click “Submit” in the lower right corner.

Make sure to submit your application by April 15, 2026.

Our team will be in touch with a notification about the status of your application.

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Submit your application by April 15, 2026

Important dates

Applications
Open until April 15, 2026
Start by making a profile on our platform and telling us more about you and your project. After you send in your application, we'll look through all the applicants who are interested in joining program.
Participant announcement
April 20, 2026
We'll carefully review all applications to choose the participants for this edition. If selected, your next step will be to accept your spot in the program!
Welcome session
April 23, 2026
Join us for a welcome session to dive into the details program! We'll introduce you to the program's schedule, your role, and the tools you'll use to help the entrepreneur develop their business. Don't miss out on this chance to learn more about what lies ahead and meet other selected mentors!
Matching phase
April 23 - May 11, 2026
The matching process begins! You will have the opportunity to send invites to the entrepreneurs you're more interested in. Once you have met with them, you and they will submit your preferences to let us know who you wish to work with. We will then try our best to form winning pairs.
Entrepreneurship program
May 21- September 30, 2026
The online incubation experience begins! From here you'll dive into weekly mentoring sessions, use the practical tools in our digital platform, and follow our entrepreneurship step-by-step plan. You will have 6 months to guide the entrepreneurs through all the modules and support them in developing their business plan.

In September 2026 we'll host the final online demo day where top entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to pitch their business in English in front of a jury and public.

Frequently asked questions from our mentors

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Contact Us

Meet Arielle (arielle@bridgeforbillions.org), Senior Program Manager for the Forward Collective program at Bridge for Billions.

You can send her an email with any questions you have about the program.

She’ll be happy to hear from you!

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